According to sources at the home ministry, there has been no move so far to bring any sedition charge against the Islamist militants arrested with huge arms and explosives and publications on Jihad.

Over three months ago, State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar, however, said the government is not reluctant to bring sedition charges against the bombers.

"If we find their action amounting to sedition, there will not be any unwillingness on our part," the state minister told reporters on September 14. The government was examining the legal aspects of the matter at that time, he said.

The militants, in a bid to achieve their goals, have been carrying out suicide attacks and bombings that so far killed 27, including two judges and four lawyers, and left people in abysmal insecurity.

Meanwhile, the arrested militants of the banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have confessed to working to establish Islamic Shariah replacing the existing laws.

Legal experts termed the militants' target and activities anti-state and suggested filing sedition charges along with the criminal cases against them.

But the home ministry has asked the law enforcers to submit charge sheets against those so far learnt to be involved in the bomb attacks and bring them under conviction.

The law enforcers have arrested around 800 people since August 17 on charges of militancy and filed 181 cases, most of them under the Explosive Substances Act. The act has a provision of 20-year imprisonment as the highest punishment.

Babar on September 14 said, "Cases have been filed across the country under the Explosive Substances Act and Special Power Act, which suit best, and the probe is on accordingly."

The law enforcers have so far submitted 85 charge sheets and sent eight cases to the Speedy Trial Tribunal.

The JMB carried out a countrywide serial bomb blasts on August 17, showing their strength against the state machinery, constitution and the existing democracy.

Its leaflets found at different blast sites described the country's constitution, judiciary and democracy as against the rule of Islam and said they will establish the Islamic Shariah.